>>>Was that a November '98 of Fox Advisor you were reffering to, George (still haven't recieved that one)?
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>>Yes it is. It's on page 50. As the author, I've already received my copy of the magazine.
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>Ok, I look forward t reading it; I usualy suck up eack issue back to back, even got me a T-shirt for a published tip. Am I proud? You bet ya!
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>Does your approach on the issue above involve WinAPI? I have seen/tried a way of checking for all kinds of running apps by using some API calls, but it's been a while.

It sure does. It's fairly lightweight, and best of all, 100% reliable. It's also the method recommended by the Win32 SDK. Given that, I would tend to use it over other methods.